NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Cosmos 1241

Launch Time
Wed Jan 21, 1981 08:29 UTC

Rocket

Cosmos-3M
Image Credit: OKB-586
RVSN USSR
Status: Retired
Liftoff Thrust: 1,486 kN
Payload to LEO: 1,500 kg
Payload to GTO: 0 kg
Stages: 2
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 32.42 m
Fairing Diameter: 2.44 m
Fairing Height: 5.72 m

Mission Details

Cosmos 1241

Cosmos 1241 is a satellite of the DS-P1 constellation. The satellites of the latter are used to test different systems for future Soviet military satellites.
It will test mainly new methods of communication with the ground, new radar systems, anti-satellites tests and modes of power supply by nuclear battery.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 460.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit

Location

Site 132/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia

Stats

1981

6th orbital launch attempt

Cosmos-3

253rd mission
2nd mission of 1981
235th successful mission
2nd consecutive successful mission